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Originally Posted by Jinglish
We have a couple of student makeup artists who don't seem to care that their phones can interfere with our mics, though.
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The theatre department at Murray State in Murray, KY (not to be confused with the Murray State in Utah) makes the actors & crew turn off their cell phones and turn them in to the SM, who locks the phones in a case, which gets locked in another cabinet somewhere. They have a three strikes rule, and it reflects badly on one's record should those strikes get broken. If you're caught with your cell, that's a strike right there, and the phone is immediately confiscated. I'm sure other universities have similar policies...
I don't have so much of a problem at Playhouse. The veterans know better, and oftentimes already have their phones off or silenced when I make the announcement at first readthrough. It's the new people- usually kids- who don't silence or turn off their phones, but they're also new enough that it's very easy to put the fear of God in them
We had a sound op who was always forgetting to turn off her phone, until I pointed out to her during one of those buzzing sounds that it was her phone that was the problem. She's turned it off ever since...